The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-10
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

OF S3OC-Singular Freak OF Light
ming Near Gainesville Augusta
Negroes Denounce the Georgia
Convict System.
GEORGIA
Monday Adjt. Gen. Kell commissioned
Clifford l., Anderson as Captain of the Gate
City Guards.
Some of the negroes i'll Middle Georgia
declare that the rains and floods are awful
visitations for the lynchings in Oglethorpe
and DeKalb.
The farmers say that there is a very
offensive stencil rising in river bottoms that
is SO terrible that it is impossible to stay
near it. The decayed corn Is the cause of
the stencil.
Saturday afternoon, during the thunder
storm, a horse belonging to William Thomp-
son, of Madison county, was struck by
lightning in front of Mr.. Greer's store in
East Athens, and instantly killed.
A mass meeting of negroes at Augusta
Monday night denounced the State convict
system. The meeting also protested against
convicts working the streets of Augusta
and thus competing with wagc~earners.
The river was again rising at Augusta
Monday. At Anderson, which is i'll the
Savannah watershed, II heavy and con
tinuous rain was falling at last accounts,
pretty general throughout in that section.
The wall of Mr.. Cartoons kitchen at Ath-
ems fell Saturday. Mr. Carlton the father
of Congressman Carlton, was out looking at
the wall, and was advised to get away from
it, as it could be heard cracking. He had
only been away few minutes when it fell.
George Mason, young man living a little
north of TallapOosa, accidentally shot him
self Saturday evening, and died Sunday
IL,
out of the RAIN and, when coming out, by
some means the hammer of his gun was
caught by the door, causing it to discharge,
the load entering his stomach.
The city council of Athens has refused to
allow Mr.. Dorsey to extend the street rail
road to Blairsville, on account of the mar
row street. The council will agree to build
it if the property holders will agree to give
ten feet on each side, making the road SIXTY
feet wide. The city will set the fences
back without any expense to the property
holders
A party who has been stopping in Ameri-
Gus for several weeks entered the store of a
merchant Monday afternoon, and without
the slightest provocation, began maligning
the young ladies of Americas in the most
shameful manner possible. The merchant
who is the father of several daughters, bid
the slanderer cease his vile utteranceS, and
him down.
On last Monday night the dwelling of
Charles Brigham at Girard, was DESTROYED
by fire, together with all the furniture and
other contents of the building. The dwell
ing was a new two-story building and the
loss is $500. The insurance only calls for
$1,000. The origin of the fire is not known,
though it must have been the work of an
incendiary, as Mr.. and Mrs Brigham had
been absent visiting relatives.
A stock company has been organized for
the purpose of establishing first-class daily
newspaper in Rome. Twenty thousand dol
lars We're subscribed to-day and 81, 900 more
will be subscribed tomorrow 1t is possible
that one or both of the present daiies will
be purchased by this company. Leading
citizens have taken this matter in hand and
are determined TO establish paper that will
be creditable to Rome and North Georgia.
A short time since oolored woman in
the lower part of Burke county by the name
OF Hannah Mcbride acted in the capacity of
midwife for young woman. The body of
the child was found in an old WELL and the
mother had disappeared. An inquest was
held, which resulted in the arrest of Hannah
Mcbride, who is very old woman. She
was committed to Jail to await hearing 1t
is not thought the charge against her will
amount to anything
w. j. Perryman, of Thomaston, has had
for some time fox which he kept tied and
which lodged under bridge in front of the
store The other night the fox got away.
The next morning a negro with lugubrious
countenance called on Mr.. Perryman and
said: Boss, dat ar fox o. yourn done ruined
me. / heerd somethn' among my chickens,
4. and when | went out | was completely done
destroyed. He had ct up ten big chickens
before sunrise" The fox was killed.
Thursday night a strange character ap-
peared on Broad street, Athens, shortly af-
ter midnight. An old colbred woman living
ing in the loTer part of the city had fallen
out with some of her neighbors, and becom-
ing crazed with anger, turned up with a
regular hallelujah HEX. Her temper took
religious turn, and she declared that she had
been commissioned by the Lord to inform
the people that the waters had subsidized
The police persuaded her also TO subside, and
tile revival broke up.
For some time the negroes above Licking
ton have been on the lookout for Pierce
Evans colored), who, they say, tried to get
up trouble between the whites and blacks
about the hanging of Ross Griffith. Mon
day morning, about 10 o'clock Pierce came
to town, and as soon as he made his appear
ance he was seized by about dozen strong
negro men and carried a short distance out
OF town and severely whipped, they giving
200 lashes on his bare back He was then
told to go and sin no more.
Mark Young, ex-Sheriff of Oglethorpe
county, says the rain gauge is not true
test He had two molasseSs barrels sitting
in his front yard in open space, and they
We're both filed in one evening to overflow
ing. Another man said he had d barrel
sitting on one end in an open space, both
heads in, With the bung-hole end up. This
barrel was also filed and running over.
Now they say that lis j. the best and truest
test of rainfall Mr.. Young says the rain
fall for the week was at least six feet, ac-
cording TO the barrel measure.
Conductor j. Z. Goode, on the East and
West railroad, of Alabama. was seriously
hurt while coupling cars Wednesday even
ing at Waddell, or Blue Springs He had
TO stop at that point TO get some cars loaded
with lime rock. The cars were on a curve
and rs the engine come back against the
cars the drawheads missed each other and
caught Mr.. Goode between the cars, MASKING
him up, catching him just above the hips.
he is seriously hurt but, it is thought, not
fatally. This is the first accident on this
road in some time.
About July p p. chel Parish, a coiored
woman living on the place Of Rev Mr.. Cars
well, went TO Waynesboro bringing with
her an infant some 6 months old Sne left
the child with a colored woman near the
fair grounds with the understanding that
she would return for it. She neverreturned.
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